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Issue Details

Issue #90
Published March 1949
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Rancho Fear!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Notes Inker revision from Mortimer to Mooney verified by Craig Delich 2010-4-2.
Reprinted in Robin Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2010)

10 page Robin story "The Mystery of Rancho Fear!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Dr. LaPointe (geologist, death); Beansy (villain); Little John Johnson (villain); Jeff (villain); Slim (villain); Batplane
Synopsis Batman and Robin, in disguise, travel to Rancho Fear to track down a gang who has stolen a metal cylinder that once held a sample of a new gas deposit located near the rancho that the criminal intend to use to their advantage.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Mooney [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Inks Jim Mooney [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Reprinted in Robin Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2010)

10 page Captain Compass story "The Island of Molten Hate"

Characters Captain Compass [Mark Compass]
Genre detective
Pencils Chuck Winter
Inks Chuck Winter

4 page The Perfect Crime Mystery story "Remote Control Murder"

10 page Tomahawk story "The Lost Men of Fort Chance"

Characters Tomahawk [Tom Hawk]
Genre western; period
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray

5 page Merry, the Girl of a Thousand Gimmicks story "Duel of the Gimmicks"

Characters Merry [Mary Pemberton]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Winslow Mortimer
Inks Winslow Mortimer
Reprinted in DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 series) #DC-10; in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #416 (March 1972)